"The new museum opens today in St. Petersburg

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June 3 in St. Petersburg will open the "New Museum" - the first in the city museum of modern art, said channel "Culture" ("To Russia"). The basis of the exposition is put a collection of non-Soviet and contemporary Russian art collected by the patron Aslan Chekhoev.
Among the exhibits - the classics of unofficial art Rabin, Lev Kropyvnyts'kogo, Lydia Masterkova, Vladimir Nemukhin, Mikhail Shvartsman, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev Vladimir Weisberg, Viktor Pivovarov, participants' Gazonevskogo movement ", the" New Artists ". The pride of sots-art museum considers the work of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid "The Judgement of Paris, or the Yalta Conference.
Also in the museum are works by such contemporary artists as Aidan Salakhova, Anatoly Osmolovskii Paul Pepperstein, Vladimir Dubossarskii and Alexander Vinogradov, the group AES + F, Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt, Dmitry Gutow, Valery Koshlyakov, Mamyshev Monroe, Konstantin Batynkov.
In autumn, in addition to the permanent exhibition in the museum exhibition opens late St. Petersburg artist nonconformist Eugene Mikhnov-Voitenko, monographic collection of works which are stored in Chekhoev. At the New Museum plans to organize lectures and roundtables, as well as open a children's art studio and art club.
The museum opens on Vasilevsky Island (6-line, House 29). Under him were allotted to three floors of the building 70 years of XIX century.
(Lenta.Ru)